The Theory of Environment, part 1

Note 20 — I A Sketch of the History of the Idea of Milieu Down to the Nineteenth Century

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Fr. de Rougemont, in his important work Les deux cités; la philosophie de l´histoire aux différents âges de l´humanité (1874) treats this question exhaustively. See Robert Poehlmann, Hellenische Anschauungen über den Zusammenhang zwischen Natur und Geschichte (Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1879, 93 pp.), pp. 8 f.

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